i recently installed vmware 4.0.0. When i try to power on the virtual machine, the following message appear "The application encountered an error while running this operation. Error ID = -1" I have tried to reinstalling vmware several times but the problem persists. How do I fix it?

We are looking into a few virtualization choices and was curious what peoples experiences were with virtual iron, vmware esx and hyper-v and if there is a strong reason to go with one over the other. Thanks

I liked your response about the 100% VMware exclusivity as I think that exactly how Microsoft should look at the situation. What`s your stance on Citrix? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Are there any downsides to moving to VMware VDI for my corporate desktop estate? If I use vmware then I can also selectively provide Linux as an alternative desktop to my users. This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

I use both Microsoft Virtualization and VMware a bit...but I'm far from being an expert on either. What are some of the advantages to Microsoft Virtualization versus VMware? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

What would you say to a 100% VMware shop? Why should a customer switch from VMware to Microsoft virtualization products? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

What are the recommendations around assigning vCPU's to virtual guests. I've read a lot about vmware recommending to not use multiple vCPU's per virtual guest unless it`s really required. Are there any specific guidelines on how to allocate vCPU's? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization...

What is Microsoft's view on virtualization, now that Hyper-V can soon be managed via Citrix Essentials. I get the impression that Microsoft wants to leave the virtualization story to Citrix and VMWare. This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Chat on ITKnowledgeExchange.com

Getting a "vmware view composer agent initialization" error after recomposing an assigned VM. When we access the VM - it creates a new profile instead of mapping to the existing profile. What are some of the common reasons for losing profile settings on the data disk? Thank you very much. Moderator...

I need to allow Active Directory users to authenticate to our VMware host running on Ubuntu. Would someone using Samba/WinBind share an example vmware-authd file or point me in the right direction? Thanks much. Moderator Note: This is a submitted question

I'm running hp pavillion with vista 64 bit system. I have loaded VMware and am trying to operate windows 98. Which works great but when i try to connect to a device using a usb to serial adapter it wont work. Most of the service software i use is 98 or 95 based and is com1 specific. When I looked...

trying to install ESXi on a Poweredge 1950, with a 2 drive RAID 1, PERC 5i controller configuration, but when the ESXi image boots I get the following error: 'Unable to find a supported device to write the ESX Server 3i 3.5.0 image to' Can anyone help User submitted question

I do a lot of testing for customer installs. I have an sbs 2003, exchange 2003 domain setup for our office email. I also use VMware running sbs 2003 and exchange 2003 in a test environment. I would like to be able to test incomming e-mail on the test domain, without reconfiguring the...

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